The Arkansas State Police announced Thursday it had seized more than 850 pounds of illegal marijuana and almost $200,000 in cash during three traffic stops on Interstate 40 last week.

On Dec. 2, state police found 128 pounds of illegal marijuana in vacuum sealed packages in a passenger vehicle that had been stopped in Prairie County, near Hazen, for a traffic violation around 10 a.m., according to a state police news release.

The driver, Xin Wang Huang, 43, was booked into the Prairie County jail and faces felony charges of possession of a controlled substance with the purpose to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia, the release says.

Huang told investigators he had been traveling from Oklahoma City to Memphis, the release says.

On Dec. 5, 724 pounds of marijuana were found in

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